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Compare the Top Code Search Engines of 2021

Code Search Engines Guide

What are Code Search Engines?

Code search engines enable users to search for source code by inputting keywords or code snippets. Compare the best Code Search engines currently available using the table below.

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    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub is the world’s most secure, most scalable, and most loved developer platform. Join millions of developers and businesses building the software that powers the world. Build with the world’s most innovative communities, backed by our best tools, support, and services. If you manage multiple contributors , there’s a free option: GitHub Team for Open Source. We also run GitHub Sponsors, where we help fund your work. The Pack is back. We’ve partnered up to give students and teachers free access to the best developer tools—for the school year and beyond. Work for a government-recognized nonprofit, association, or 501(c)(3)? Get a discounted Organization account on us.
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    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.
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    Starting Price: $4 per user per month
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    Bitbucket

    Bitbucket

    Atlassian

    Bitbucket is more than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy. Free for small teams under 5 and priced to scale with Standard ($3/user/mo) or Premium ($6/user/mo) plans. Keep your projects organized by creating Bitbucket branches right from Jira issues or Trello cards. Build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Approve code review more efficiently with pull requests. Create a merge checklist with designated approvers and hold discussions right in the source code with inline comments. Bitbucket Pipelines with Deployments lets you build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Know your code is secure in the Cloud with IP whitelisting and required 2-step verification. Restrict access to certain users, and control their actions with branch permissions and merge checks for quality code.
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    Starting Price: $2.00/month/user
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    Fisheye

    Fisheye

    Atlassian

    Search, track, and visualize code changes. Visualize and report on activity and search for commits, files, revisions, or teammates across SVN, Git, Mercurial, CVS and Perforce. View changes with a side-by-side or unified diff tool and link your Jira Software issues directly to diffs, changeset details, or full source. Get a graphical representation of activity in your source, report on lines of code over time, and get a visual audit trail of changes. Follow what's happening throughout your projects with activity streams showing commits, Jira Software issues, and Crucible review activities across your team. Find code fast with search using any artifact in your code: file names, commit messages, authors, text, and even historical changes. Browse, index, and search all your source from all your source code management systems including SVN, Git, Mercurial, CVS and Perforce – all in one tool. Upgrade your workflow with Jira Software, Bitbucket Server, Bamboo and more.
    Starting Price: $10 one-time payment
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    PublicWWW

    PublicWWW

    PublicWWW

    Ultimate solution for digital marketing and affiliate marketing research, PublicWWW allow you to perform searches this way, something that is not possible with other regular search engines. Find related websites through the unique HTML codes they share, i.e. widgets & publisher IDs. Identify sites using certain images or badges. Find out who else is using your theme. References to use a library or a platform. Find code examples on the internet. Figure out who is using what JS widgets on their sites.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    Sourcetrail

    Sourcetrail

    Coati Software

    Sourcetrail is an interactive source explorer that simplifies navigation in existing source code by indexing your code and gathering data about its structure. Sourcetrail then provides a simple interface consisting of three interactive views, each playing a key role in helping you obtain the information you need: - Search: Use the search field to quickly find and select indexed symbols in your source code. The autocompletion box will instantly provide an overview of all matching results throughout your codebase. - Graph: The graph displays the structure of your source code. It focuses on the currently selected symbol and directly shows all incoming and outgoing dependencies to other symbols. - Code: The Code view displays all source locations of the currently selected symbol in a list of code snippets. Clicking on a different source location allows you to change the selection and dig deeper.
    Starting Price: $195.00/one-time/user
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    NerdyData

    NerdyData

    NerdyData

    You'll never run out of leads as long as your competition are in business. Go after prospects who obviously have the budget and demand for your better software. Get the up-to-date snapshot of your marketshare and your competition. Easily power ABM strategies and advertising campaigns for each competitor. With our Free Browser Extension you can analyze any website's tech stack and tech budget before you reach out to them. NerdyData's crawlers render Javascript, ideal for identifying web technologies (cookies, variables, network requests, etc.). Historical Reports use a vastly larger dataset, but is limted to raw HTML and HTTP headers. So while it won't contain dynamic content, you should expect more results due to the larger dataset.
    Starting Price: $75 per month
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    Kooder

    Kooder

    Kooder

    Kooder is an open source code search project, offering code, repositories and issues search service for code hosting platforms including Gitee, GitLab and Gitea. There are two modules, gateway and indexer. Gateway is integrated inside gateway under default config.
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    livegrep

    livegrep

    livegrep

    Livegrep is a tool, partially inspired by Google Code Search, for interactive regex search of ~gigabyte-scale source repositories. To run livegrep, you need to invoke both the codesearch backend index/search process, and the livegrep web interface. To run the sample web interface over livegrep itself, once you have built both codesearch and livegrep. The codesearch binary is responsible for reading source code, maintaining an index, and handling searches. livegrep is stateless and relies only on the connection to codesearch over a TCP connection. By default, codesearch will build an in-memory index over the repositories specified in its configuration file. You can, however, also instruct it to save the index to a file on disk. This has the dual advantages of allowing indexes that are too large to fit in RAM, and of allowing an index file to be reused.
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    Codase

    Codase

    Codase

    Codase hosts huge amount of open source codes providing a much better coverage, as it covers codes usually hidden inside compressed files and source control repositories, where general search engines fail to find and index. In addition, Codase only indexes and searches high quality codes with every line of code literally validated and compiled by intelligent and powerful source code analysis engine. Codase is a privately held company based in silicon valley, founded by Dr. Huihong Luo and other veterans. We are a group of innovative and passionate professionals with diverse technologies, business background and proven track of records. We are committed to make Codase the world's best search engine for source codes in terms of features, quality, performance and code coverage. If you are a developer, you may find Codase useful, since improving your coding productivity is our goal.
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    searchcode

    searchcode

    searchcode

    Type any term you want to search for in the search box and press the enter key. Generally best results can be gained by searching for terms that you expect to be close to each other on the same line. Other characters are treated as part of the search itself. This means that a search for something such as i++; is not only a legal search it is likely to return results for most code bases. Any search can be filtered down to a specific source or identified language using the refinement options. Select one or more of each and click the "Apply" button to do this. Filters on the normal interface persist between searches. This allows you to select a specific repository or language and continue searching. To clear applied filters uncheck the filters individually and click on "Filter Selected". You can also click "Clear Filters" button to clear all active filters. The HTML only page filters are cleared between every new search.
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    Snipplr

    Snipplr

    Snipplr

    Snipplr was designed to solve a simple problem. We had too many random bits of code and HTML scattered all over our computers. We'd hunt and dig around for five minutes looking for the couple lines of code we wrote four projects ago just so we wouldn't have to retype them. We're lazy. We needed a way to keep all of our stuff organized. Snipplr is our solution. Now, all of our code snippets are stored in one place. Best of all, the other guys at work have access to each others' code library. With Snipplr you can keep all of your frequently used code snippets in one place that's accessible from any computer. You can share your code with other visitors and use what they post, too.
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    Krugle

    Krugle

    Krugle

    Security teams can quickly pinpoint the spread of Security Issues from CVE, OWASP, Stackoverflow and other published resources. Krugle helps developers discover important code fixes, share problem solving insights and troubleshoot complex problems. Support engineers use Krugle Enterprise to share existing fixes, document issues, verify project details and track down key resources. Krugle delivers continuously updated, federated access to all of the code and technical information that defines your business. Krugle search helps your organization pinpoint critical code patterns and application issues - immediately and at massive scale.
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    merobase

    merobase

    merobase

    Merobase is a search engine solution that helps developers find, share and reuse software components from the Internet. merobase supports the following candidate matching solutions: Test-driven search (software testing) and interface-driven code search and keyword-based search.
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    Sourcegraph

    Sourcegraph

    Sourcegraph

    Sourcegraph is a software company based in the United States that was founded in 2013 and offers a software product called Sourcegraph. Pricing starts at $25.00/month/user. Sourcegraph offers training via documentation. Sourcegraph is code search software. Sourcegraph offers online support. Sourcegraph offers a free version and free trial. Sourcegraph is available as SaaS software. Some alternative products to Sourcegraph include Bitbucket, GitLab, and GitHub.
    Starting Price: $25.00/month/user
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    Hound

    Hound

    Etsy

    Hound is an extremely fast source code search engine. The core is based on this article (and code) from Russ Cox: Regular expression matching with a trigram index. Hound itself is a static React frontend that talks to a Go backend. The backend keeps an up-to-date index for each repository and answers searches through a minimal API. Currently Hound is only tested on MacOS and CentOS, but it should work on any *nix system. Hound on Windows is not supported but we've heard it compiles and runs just fine (although it helps to to exclude your data folder from Windows Search Indexer).
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    OpenGrok

    OpenGrok

    OpenGrok

    It understands various program file formats and history from many Source Code Management systems. In other words it lets you grok (profoundly understand) source code and is developed in the open, hence the name OpenGrok. It is written in Java. Search for full text, definitions, symbols, path and revision history. Show the matching lines in search results. Online cross-reference with syntax highlighting, highly customizable look and feel using CSS stylesheets. Plugins can be written for new programing language or revision control systems.
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    Open Hub

    Open Hub

    Synopsys

    Compare project statistics, including activity, codebase, contributors, and more in either a graphical or side-by-side view. Compare languages based on commits, contributors, lines of code changes, and the total number of new projects. Compare types of repositories based on how many of that type are registered with Open Hub. View statistics per language, including most experienced contributors, recent contributors, total lines of code analyzed, total lines of comments, and more.
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    SymbolHound

    SymbolHound

    SymbolHound

    SymbolHound is a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. This means you can easily search for symbols like &, %, and π. We hope SymbolHound will help programmers find information about their chosen languages and frameworks more easily. SymbolHound is primarily a programming search engine. Searching for symbols is just not that useful for the average Internet user. Google could probably very easily do this, but it wouldn't make their search engine any better for the vast majority of their user base; in fact, it might make it worse. But for the small percentage of people who find themselves needing to search for special characters, Google is not useful. However, SymbolHound is a symbol search engine and is perfect for that query.
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    CodePilot.ai

    CodePilot.ai

    CodePilot.ai

    Search multiple sources at once and find solutions to your coding problems. Code examples, issues, questions, docs – everything at your fingertips. Trying this new library? Looking for some projects that use it? Wondering how other projects implement the feature you’re working on? You can now filter GitHub results based on the libraries the project depends on. Similar API syntax is no longer an issue to worry when searching for code. Create developer profiles based on the projects you’re working on. Our ML-powered Ranker will analyze and rank the results based on relevancy for your current profile. Pick from a list of suggested custom sources curated for the technologies and tools from your developer profile.
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